Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20169603000
Revision Date:2018-07-27Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-9603 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support before 2.9; the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-9603
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • The 'qemu' package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11').
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'xen' package in xenial is not affected (note: 'uses system qemu').
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